Mark Zuckerberg: This Year There are Dozens of Facebook phone

Rumors about the phone up have been circulating since a few months ago. However, the new certainty answered now. One by one, mobile phone manufacturers released products designed specially for the network said.

Founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, had sent a special message in the arena of Mobile World Congress 2011 (MWC 2011) when HTC launched two new models of mobile phones up, Tuesday (15/02/2011). Through video recording, Mark Zuckerberg confirmed, it would not make the phone itself. However, many phones will make up the hardware manufacturer partners.

"Many have made up their own mobile phones. However, this year you can expect to see dozens of mobile phones with social integration is much deeper than you see today," said Mark Zuckerberg. Mobile phones are using Facebook Social Graph APIs that allow access to various features of up becomes easier.

In the event the MWC 2011 in Barcelona, Spain, mobile phone manufacturers from Taiwan, HTC, introduced two models of mobile phones up, HTC HTC Salsa and Chacha. Both are fitted directly on the bottom right button that users can use to connect directly to the features up.

Previously, companies from Britain, INQ, had already launched two models of mobile phones up, ie touch and INQ INQ Cloud Cloud Q. Both are equipped with applications that use up Social Graph API and user interface that enables users to access all the features up from his cell phone.

Bugs in the Mark Zuckerberg fan page

SAN FRANCISCO - Revealed been speculation why the fan page page-founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg could be infiltrated by hackers. Up finally admitted there is a bug (problem) in the feature so that someone could smuggle a message to the fan page page as if directly from Mark Zuckerberg.

"A bug allows a written status of people who do not have the right to appear on some pages of the public,"the spokesman said up in the email as reported by AFP on Thursday (27/01/2011) this. Added, the problem has been overcome and removed from the fan page original.

Currently, the page that had infiltrated the hacker had been deleted and no longer be accessible. In fact, do not appear on the cached page service search engines like Google and Bing. the only evidence is a screenshot that had created a web site Techcrunch.com who reported it.

Hackers write a message that suggests Mark Zuckerberg follow steps Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus and make up a social organization that attracted donations from the public rather than commercial. In his message is also inserted hashtag "hackercup2011" which is a programming competition that was held up at the international level.

Facebook-Skype Video Chat Service

Social networking site Facebook is rumored to being a long term cooperation with communication services via the internet, Skype.

Partnership the two companies planned to be realized through voice chat service, integration of short messages and Facebook Connect.

According to the site that already has 500 million users were, on average, has 130 members who have been friends maximizing chat service, messages between the wall and electronic mail.

Although not yet clear when the implementation of the cooperation is carried out, expected later Facebook users can take advantage of the text or telephone communication service Skype.

Facebook Acquisition Hot Potato Site

California - Facebook is very serious to add features to its service locations. The proof, the company led by Mark Zuckerberg has bought a location-based social site, Hot Potato.

In his blog, Hot Potato announced that it has bought Facebook site yesterday. While not mentioning how much the sell price, posting written vanessagene express how happy it Hot Potato for these purchases. "This is an exciting year at Hot Potato," wrote vanessagene.

Hot Potato was active since November last year and known as location-based social networking. At these sites, users can tell their existence and are doing what activity, share photos or video and interact with each other.

Vanessagene written decision to join Facebook because the site has been making great products and followed by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

With the acquisition, saying vanessagene will no longer accept new users and registration within one month, the Hot Potato will remove all user data. "Everything will be stored by Facebook," he said.

Detailed Data 100 Million Facebookers Download and Published

Would this be considered a serious threat in data security at Facebook? Recently the personal details of 100 million facebookers - the term for Facebook users - has been collected and published on the internet by an IT security consultant, Ron Bowles. He uses a code to scan a Facebook profile, collect data that is hidden by the owner's privacy settings.

The list, which has been divided into the public as a downloadable file. In that dafar terdapatURL every Facebook user profiles which can be searched, their names as well as its unique ID.

Bowles said he had not published the data for the purpose of attacking, but to highlight the issue of privacy. However, Facebook confirmed, all the data it nonetheless has become public information because the owner, according to their privacy settings, deliberately letting displayed.

Now the file has been spreading fast in the corners of cyberspace. On the Pirate Bay, the largest file sharing sites in the world, 100 million facebookers list was distributed and has been downloaded by more than 1000 users.

A confessed 'that appeared under the name lusifer69, described the list with the phrase' awesome and a little scary ". However, the defense pitched a statement quoted by the BBC, Thursday (29 / 7), Facebook states information in the list can be freely accessed online.

"People who use Facebook, have their own information and have the right to share only what they want, with the people they want and whenever they want," the statement said.

"In this case, the information that has been approved for publication have been collected by a researcher and spread on Google, Bing and other search engines also exist on Facebook. The statement also asserted," There is no private data that can be accessed or compromised, "

However, an observer from Privacy International, Simon Davis, a kind of example that the experiment mengetakan for Facebook warning that something like that, even worse can happen. "Facebook should anticipate this attack and make steps to prevent it," says Simon.

"It's very comforting to know a company hundreds of technicians circuitry can not imagine magnitude of this problem. Moreover appeared many opinions that said the attitude tends ignore Facebook," he added.

He also said that the data pengumpulk use privacy settings in Facebook are confusing. "People do not fully understand the privacy settings and this is the result," he said.

Earlier this year, appeared badari protests from the hassle of setting up the site user's privacy. In response, Facebook took out a more simplified privacy controls.

Facebook has privacy settings that make the public for some user information published and accessible. Facebookers also must make a conscious choice to keep or get rid of these general settings.

Zynga Will Leave Facebook?

When you're geeks games on Facebook, you should already be familiar with Zynga. This is the company's popular game developers on Facebook. Now a startling news emerged in the virtual domain recently. Zynga Facebook reportedly will part. Zynga, according to a digital news site Techcrunch.com, the game will launch own social networking site called Zynga Live.

Description about this Live Zynga Techcrunch quoted a source. The source said Zynga CEO Mark Pincus himself who announced the initiative and confirm the breakdown of relationships Zynga and Facebook on Thursday last week.

Zynga mentioned Facebook and Facebook have been negotiating about Credits and talks did not reach the meeting point. Facebook is threatening to close the game on Facebook and Zynga Zynga also threatened to really pull of Facebook.

This question arises after Facebook asked Zynga and other application developers using Facebook Credits as the only payment platform. Facebook will attract 30 per cent fee to use Facebook Credits.

Is it true that chaotic? Sarah Jacobsson, a writer in the fractured relationship PCWorld.com doubt it. According to him, Zynga and Facebook have a mutually beneficial relationship over the years, where Zynga desperately need access to the millions of Facebook users who have been actively accessing the popular game-like game in Farmville, World Cafe, or Mafia Wars. While Facebook requires Zynga to give reasons for millions of users check the site regularly.

Facebook Offering Scholarships

CALIFORNIA - Facebook will announce the launch of a new scholarship program. However, this program is limited to computer engineering students across the United States alone.

In addition, these students are also required to work in fields related to social computing and Internet technology lainny. To get the scholarship, students are required to submit a work with the theme "Yeah determined to fight one of the themes offered. To support this program, Facebook itself has launched a new site.

Later students were selected to receive scholarships, Facebook will provide facilities for paying tuition academic year, including tickets and pocket money $ 30 thousand dollars in pocket money, $ 5 thousand to buy a computer, and USD5ribu to pay for travel and conferences.

They will also have the opportunity to be placed as an intern at Facebook's office and paid for next summer. So that was launched by Tech Crunch. Saturday (9/1/2010).

The fifth theme is meant is:

1. Internet Economics: algorithmic theory relevant online advertising auction.
2. Cloud Computing: Storage, database, and optimization for distributed computing on a large scale in the environment.
3. Social Computing: models, models, algorithms and systems in social networks, social media, social search and collaborative environment.
4. Data Mining and Machine Learning: learning algorithms, feature generation, and effective evaluation methods to produce a model of behavior online and offline.
5. Systems: Hardware, operating system, runtime, and language support for fast, scalable, efficient data center.
6. Information Retrieval: the search algorithm, information extraction, answer questions, cross-language and multimedia.
   

This application is submitted later than the date on February 15, 2010, and winners will be announced on March 29.

Facebook users from Indonesia increased

San Francisco - Predictions of the analysis that says Facebook users outside the U.S. dominated proved true. But once Americans still listed as users of Facebook with the largest percentage.

Inside Facebook was launched through Wednesday (6/1/2010), approximately 70 percent of Facebook users come from outside the United States. Indonesia is the country's largest Facebook to 3 in the world. Indonesia's position under the United States and Turkey with a total user, in this January 2010, reaching 15.3 million. While Turkey reached 16.9 million users.

Figures in both countries is still very much with Facebook users in the United States that reaches more than 100 millions, exactly 102.6 million. This number increased approximately 5 percent compared with last December, which only reached 98.1 million.

If the growth in America is only 5 percent of their users, in contrast with Facebook users in Turkey is only increased approximately 4 percent compared to users in December, reaching 16.3 million. Facebook users in Indonesia alone grew approximately 10 percent compared to the number in December which reached 13.8 million users, or an additional approximately 1.43 million users.

Overall, the growth of Facebook users continues. At the end of the month ago, Facebook users now have reached 350 million, compared to the previous month that only 337 million. This means that there are adding 13 million users in over a month.

Farmville Most Popular on Facebook

This year seems to be the year cultivation on Facebook. Can say that because the game's most popular online Farmville discussed at the network said.

"Facebook provides a platform for developers to create many popular applications now, and no surprise when people talk about it," said Lars Backstrom, researchers at Facebook as quoted in the Telegraph blogs.

Farmville own online game newly available since June 2009. However, these games have now noted the number of players no less than 72 million active Facebook users each month.

Other keywords are most widely used is fml (F ** My Life). Then followed Swine Flu, Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Bill Mays, and the family around the keywords such as Mom, Dad, Daughter, and Kids.

The following keywords ranking of the most widely used in Facebook by category:

1 - Application for Facebook
Keywords: Farmville, Farm Town, Social Living
2 - fml
Keywords: fml
3 - Swine flu
Keywords: Flu, Swine Flu, H1N1
4 - Death Artist
Keywords: Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, Billy Mays
5 - Family
Keywords: Family, Mom, Dad, Son, Daughter, Kids
6 - Film
Keywords: New Moon, Transformers, Star Trek, The Hangover, Paranormal Activity and Harry Potter
7 - Sport
Key words: Steelers, Yankees
8 - Health
Keywords: Health Care, No one should have to ...
9 - FB
Keywords: FB, FB Friends, News Feed
10 - Twitter
Keywords: Twitter, RT
11 - Year
Keywords: 2008, 2009, 2010
12 - Lady Gaga
Keywords: Gaga, Poker Face
13 - Yard
Keywords: Yard
14 - Faith
Keywords: Easter, Lord, God
15 - I
Key words: I, is

Facebook Increase User Privacy

With the increasing number of users who now have 350 million through the numbers, Facebook began to tighten the focus of the user's privacy. Starting Wednesday ((9/12/2009), all Facebook users will be prompted to re-apply the settings to make sure that whatever content is accessible to the public and can be seen only friendship networks.

"Facebook is changing the way people control the world's information online by encouraging them to sort out any content that will be shared to an audience different," said Elliot Schrage, vice president of communications, public policy, and marketing for Facebook, as reported by Telegraph.

Once done login, each user will be redirected to a Facebook feature that will guide the transition to review their privacy settings and re-apply the settings. New users will also be directed to learn the rules of this privacy controls after completion of registration process.

With this feature, users can determine who can view information on proil pages, comments, photos, and video. Would it be allowed to see friends only, friends of friends, or anyone free visits are not included in friendship networks. Especially for users who are under 18 years, the system will arrange for all of the information displayed can be seen only friends, friends of friends, friends at school, or friend of one organization only.

This is Facebook after receiving input from the user and social networking experts. Strict privacy settings are also efforts to ensure that any information falling into the right hands so that pressing the misuse of Facebook.